Introducing RallyUp and RallyForge: Find Open Hits, Then Ask Your Club Anything

Two new features on RallyHub, and they sit at opposite ends of the same problem: knowing what your tennis community is up to. RallyUp helps you find a game with people beyond your own contacts. RallyForge helps you ask your community a question and get a real answer back. One finds you a hit, the other finds you the group's opinion. Here is how each works.

RallyUp: a live feed of open hits

Your friends list is great, but some weeks nobody is free and you still want to play. RallyUp is the feed of open "looking to hit" sessions across the community that you can browse and join, no group chat and no chasing.

When you organise a hit, there is a toggle to open it to the community. Flip it on and your session appears on RallyUp with its date, time, court, format, skill range, and a vibe. Leave it off and the hit stays friends-only. Browsing the other way, you can filter the feed by one of five vibes so you find the right kind of tennis:

• Social Chill, for a relaxed rally.
• Competitive, when you want a real contest.
• Drilling, for practice over points.
• Beginner Friendly, no pressure.
• Match Play, for proper sets.

See a spot you like, tap Join, and you are in. If it is full, tap Join Waitlist and you are auto-promoted the moment someone drops out, with a single notification, no refreshing. Each card tags the court's surface, lights, and whether it is covered, and RallyUp warns you up front if you are outside the organiser's target skill range so you do not join into a mismatch. There is also an SOS board at the top for last-minute fill-ins when a session is one player short.

Why it helps: it is the easiest way to grow your circle past the people you already know, without cold-messaging strangers. You meet players at your level, on a court that suits you, and once you have hit with someone good you add them as a friend and they become part of your regular pool.

RallyForge: ask your club anything

Every club and group has decisions to make. What night should pennant practice be? Was the coaching block any good? Should we run a comp this term? RallyForge is a form builder for exactly that, polls and surveys aimed at your tennis community, with the results worked out for you.

Give a form a title, and the builder opens. You add questions from nine types: single choice, multi-choice, short and long text, star rating, ranking, an NPS zero-to-ten, a slider, and plain yes/no. Respondents see one question per screen with a progress bar, which is far nicer on a phone than a wall of fields, and your work auto-saves as you build.

Publish it public so any member can find it in the RallyForge feed, members-only, or link-only for a private audience. As responses arrive, the results dashboard fills in live: bar charts for choices, averages for star ratings, a promoters-and-detractors breakdown for NPS, and scrollable lists for the written answers. No spreadsheet, and because each member can only respond once, the numbers are clean. You can export the lot to CSV if you need to share it with people who are not on RallyHub.

Why it helps: it turns "what does everyone reckon?" from a messy group chat into a clear result you can act on. Voters even earn XP for completing a form, so you get responses rather than silence.

How they fit together

RallyUp is the discovery layer: it gets you playing with more people. RallyForge is the listening layer: it tells you what those people actually want. Meet your community on one, understand it on the other.

Where to find them

RallyUp lives at /rallyup (full detail on its about page), and RallyForge is at /forge (its about page walks through building your first form). Post an open hit this week, and run a one-question poll asking your group what format the next comp should be. That is both features earning their keep in about five minutes.